🍬 HexCandy: Delicious color tracker for designers
Today I launched a little and awesome web app I made in two weeks, introducing HexCandy.
HexCandy is just a delicious color tracker for designers, that is, you like a color, you save it on HexCandy, and it remains with you forever.
The idea
The other day I was deciding which colors to use on a project, so I just went straight to my ColorZilla Chrome extension to see my previously picked colors, when I find an awesome color around the web that I like, I just use the ColorZilla color picker to see the hex value and save it into the color history, but it can only hold up to 66 colors at a time, so as soon as I add new colors the first ones disappear, that was frustrating, I was losing my favorite colors!
I thought about a nice looking and super simple web app that can save your favorite colors, so I began to code.
And here it is…
I finished building HexCandy today, just a few hours ago, and I have to say, it’s so useful and beautiful, whenever I find a cool color, I just copy the hex value and save it on HexCandy with a proper name, that’s what I call a candy 🍬.
You can add or delete candies, and copy a candy hex value into your clipboard, very cool isn’t?
The tech stack
For all the hackers & makers out there, here’s what I used to build HexCandy:
- React, react-router and redux for the frontend
- Firebase for the backend
- Animate.css & bounce.js for the fancy animations
- Firebase auth provider for authentication with Facebook
- Heroku for hosting
That’s all!
Product Hunt
HexCandy is live on Product Hunt! So give it a try and feel free to join the discussion or give me feedback, it’ll be very valuable.
Thanks for reading!
Go try HexCandy now, seriously, it’s awesome.
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Enrique Benitez
